Chapter 7, guys!


Chapter 7

Izzie, Alex, Meredith, George and Cristina all walked onto a beach in Santa Cruz. It was 35 degrees Celsius outside, making it the perfect day to spend at the beach. Sun, sea and sand, just what the group wanted to get from their vacation, apart from meeting each other.

Cristina just flopped to the ground whilst Alex ran towards the sea ahead of Meredith, George and Izzie.

"Come on! What's taking you guys so long?" Alex asked the others who were behind him.

"What's the rush? It's not going anywhere" Meredith told Alex, motioning to the sea.

"Guys, let's just have some fun, okay? I've brought a beach ball. I thought we could have a couple of games." Izzie smiled, the others nodding in agreement.

"Okay, so we need teams. I'll go with George. Mer, you go with Iz. Cristina won't join us, she's too busy getting a tan."

"Oh trust me. She'll here us having fun then want to join in. Anyway, Izzie and Me are going to sunbathe later for a bit, right?"

"Yeah, we're gonna let you guys get to know each other a bit better."

"Do we have to? He thinks I'm gay." George pouted.

"And this behaviour is what gives him that idea. Come on, let's just have some fun. We're on vacation." Izzie grinned.

"So why did you choose Santa Cruz? Why not Santa Monica?" Meredith asked Alex.

"Well, with Santa Monica being in LA I thought it'd be too high priced for us. It's basically the same as here, just more publicised."

"You have a point. They both have good weather, amazing beaches and theme parks on the near the beach. You made a good choice. Go Alex!" Izzie smiled at him, then ran over and high-fived him.

"I try my best." He smirked modestly.

"Okay, get into positions."

"Boys vs Girls."George cheered.

"Okay then, you ready?" Alex as he tossed the inflatable beach ball into the air.

"YEAH!" George nodded whilst Meredith and Izzie screamed out and jumped up to hit the ball.

"Hey guys, I'm joining in." Cristina shouted as she sprinted into the water and onto Meredith's team.

"Told ya she would. Okay, we're definitely ready now. TO KICK YOUR ASSES!" She shouted, Izzie and Cristina cheering.

"Okay. Game on" Alex glared playfully.

The group played volleyball in the sea with a beach ball for the next couple of hours. It was amazing how well the group were getting along. Many people who saw them probably thought they'd been best friends for years. All that mattered was that they were now a close group of friends, and it would stay that way.

Alex and Izzie were the only remaining two playing volleyball in the sea. The others had gone in shore and were sunbathing on their brightly coloured beach towels, getting tans and listening to their iPods whilst doing so.

"so, what do you think of the holiday so far?" Alex asked Izzie.

"It's amazing. I can't thank you enough, Alex, for coming up with this." She smiled.

"Hey, it's no problem. I wanted to meet the people I'll be spending the next 10 or so years with. Hell, I may even end up being housemates with one of you guys."

"Well, Meredith's mom still has a house in Seattle. She never sold it and she never rented it out. I think Meredith's plan is to move into that once we start our internship."

"Sounds like a good idea."

"Uh huh" She agreed.

Alex decided it was now time to step up the game a little.

"Iz, watch out" Alex laughed as he did a power serve making Izzie run back to return it. Izzie decided instead of returning it she would kidnap the ball and run down the beach, see what Alex's reaction would be to this action.

As she ran down the beach as fast as she could she could hear Alex shouting after her and laughing.

"What the hell are you doing, Iz?"

"Oh, it's a new rule in the game" She shouted back at him, laughing.

"Oh, yeah. Whatever" He chuckled. He quickened his pace so that he was now sprinting after her.

"You'll never catch me. You're too slow." She giggled.

Alex was now within arm's reach of her. He grabbed hold of her waist and pulled her into him, making her giggle uncontrollably and drop the beach ball. Alex reluctantly let go of her and grabbed the ball. He couldn't help but notice that she smelt so good, looked amazingly hot in her blue adidas bikini and, if she felt the same way he did, he would hold her forever and never let go.

Izzie noticed something was slightly up with Alex.

"Alex?" Izzie asked stepping closer to him, pulling his chin up so that he would look her in the eye. "What's up?" She asked.

"Oh, it's nothing. Don't worry."

"You're not really an ass. Not when you get to know you. I take it back, me calling you an ass when we first started talking. You're actually pretty sweet, well, to me at least. Is there something you're not telling me?"

Alex paused for a moment.

"Nope." He smiled and then ran off laughing into the sea.

Izzie had an idea to get the ball back.

"Alex, you dropped something!" She shouted after him.

"Huh?" he asked. At this point Izzie was also in the water and was just about to jump on his so he'd land on the floor. Alex let go of the ball and Izzie landed on top of him. For a moment she looked into his eyes. She knew he was hiding something.

"Alex, just tell me what's up."

"There's nothing wrong." He lied. "Is there something up with you?" he asked gently, brushing the hair out of her face.

"I just... I want...I want to try..."She mumbled as her cheeks turned a light shade of pink.

Izzie leaned in and kissed him, both melting against each other. This is what Izzie wanted to try but she couldn't let him know she had feelings for him. He was still a manwhore, even if he wasn't an ass to her anymore.

Alex broke the kiss and gave her a weird look. She would have to come up with an excuse for the amazingly hot kiss they had both just shared. Izzie did not even try and escape from his arms wrapped around her. They were friends and she didn't feel the need to.

"What the hell, Iz?"

"I just wanted to know what it's like to kiss a manwhore." She smiled innocently. "Nothing serious."

"Okay then." He smiled back. It was the only thing he could do.

Neither of them knew that their good friend Meredith had been watching the whole thing from her sunbathing spot on the shore and that Meredith was now in the motion of getting the two together. Meredith had a plan, and she knew that sooner or later it would work.


Because I've merged updates together to make longer chapters for you, I'd suggest going back to chapter 1 and reading from the end of there (as that's around about where the old update ended.) Thanks for reading!